Advertising Blindness

By: Jason Gee In 2016, that question became a lot harder to discern, especially when it came to which news articles were authentic or fake. Traditionally, major news networks (e.g., NBC, ABC, CBS) and newspapers (e.g., The New York Times, The Washington Post) would be the leaders in news publishing, and most would agree that journalistic reporting… Continue reading »

Marketers have long struggled to institutionalize measurement and ROI models for new media, often adopting approaches that roll out across the organization. These measurement models are shaped by the goals that advertising programs are crafted to address, the technology that can be brought to bear on measurement, and even the marketer’s view of the role… Continue reading »

It’s no surprise that the consumer magazine industry is struggling to secure Ad pages and keep their publications vibrant. But how many of you know that a fair amount of the well-known publishers such as Hearst, Time Inc., Bonnier and Meredith, have line extensions that are revenue generators for their brands? Are the publishers really… Continue reading »

Did social listening lead political pundits down the wrong path during the election? A few weeks ago, I wrote a piece on the marketing lessons we can all learn from the 2016 U.S. general election, knowing that there were many more to come. One of the biggest lessons since learned concerns social listening, its current… Continue reading »

Sublime Skinz COO and Cofounder Jerem Febvre tells WIT Strategy Partner Bill Brazell that many display ads fail because they are never seen — and many that are seen, annoy. In response, Sublime Skinz developed a method of wrapping ads around the content, at scale. Music: “Morning Rays” by Jim Duffy. Used with permission.

Between a report on ad blocking recently released by Adobe and PageFair, and the news about Chrome blocking Flash, anxiety over the percentage of ads actually reaching digital users is certainly understandable. That report puts ad blocking software on the devices of over one-quarter of U.S. Internet users. Do keep in mind that PageFair is… Continue reading »

Last week I wrote about the notion that the modern human had developed advertising blindness. The homo mercatus is a species so over-advertised to that he has evolved to a state of being able to pass over marketing with little or no effort. What options are left brands when the intended audiences of their messaging… Continue reading »

As I cruise into middle-age (or at least, I hope so!) I’ve found that the methods of self-improvement take on forms that heretofore would have been considered chores. Since I was always better at schoolwork than I was at loosing weight or going to the gym, the particular form of self-improvement I’ve recently engaged in… Continue reading »